14 day custody for drug smuggler

Hyderabad: The South African woman, who was attempting to smuggle over 793 grams of cocaine, was sent to 14 days judicial custody by the Eighth Metropolitan Magistrate Court in Hyderabad on Wednesday. The 32-year-old Moosa Mosiea was discharged from Osmania General Hospital on Wednesday, after the doctors extracted 51 latex-covered cocaine capsules.

The woman was caught by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) officials at Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA) in Shamshabad on August 29, when she was seen finding difficulty in walking. The preliminary investigations revealed that Mosiea, resident of Johannesburg in South Africa,

travelled to Dubai and to Sao Paulo in Brazil and then back to Dubai, from where she boarded an Emirates flight to reach Hyderabad after concealing the drug capsules in her belly and urogenital tract. She managed to avoid water and food for 35-long hours during her flight journey.

The NCB officials informed that she was just a courier, who was told by the handlers that she would be received by their man in Hyderabad by disclosing a code word. The receiver was supposed to take Mosiea to a star hotel, where she has to stay for a week and extract the drugs by defecation.

The officials of NCB admitted her to OGH on August 30, where she was given laxatives to extract the capsules naturally and, it took three days for the doctors at OGH to be successful. After the doctors confirmed that Mosiea’s health was stable, the NCB officials produced the woman in the Court.

The officials were gearing up to file a petition in the Court seeking the custody of the South African woman to dig out information about the others involved in the racket.